The LAMB waitlist contradicts the thread here that said you should expect the number of seats to be what was offered last year in both campuses combined. They only offered 8 seats total for PK4, and 0 for K.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My general takeaway-- waitlists are much much much shorter than they had been in the past.

What schools/grades are you looking at when you say that?

I think looking at the PK3 numbers, the waitlists definitely seem shorter than last year. For example, at Bancroft the waitlist for English Dominant PK3 was 318 last year and 254 this year or at Powell where it was 132 last year and 87 this year.

My impression is that the incoming K class seems small. Might also explain that other poster asking about why Maury suddenly took a bunch of OOB K dids this year (12 already!).

Just looking mostly at PK3 numbers, but it looks like less applicants this year than last year. Most of the schools seem to have similar number of spots, but shorter waitlists than last year. At least for PK3

Anonymous wrote:Huh, looks like Banneker is planning to run a waitlist (first time I’ve ever seen it). Also they admitted a lot of kids. Curious what the yield will end up being…

I was curious to see if Banneker and McKinley Tech had waitlist info this year. Shocked to see the # of admitted students for both and agree that it's probably best to go this route to fill seats quickly. Banneker Summer Institute begins on 5 July, so of course they'd want as many kids enrolled prior to then. I'm hoping to submit today.

Anonymous wrote:It looks like Watkins didn't fill its seats in any grade except 2nd? Can that be right?

Although I am confused how they have really short waitlists while also not matching with the number of students they wanted. Are those post-match day additions to the waitlist that are being counted already?

If a child matches at Watkins, and that child has a sibling who had Watkins on its list, but the sibling matched at a higher-ranked school, then the lottery will add the sibling to the Watkins waitlist (this helps ensure families with multiple children have the most options available).

It looks like Watkins didn't fill its seats in any grade except 2nd? Can that be right?

Although I am confused how they have really short waitlists while also not matching with the number of students they wanted. Are those post-match day additions to the waitlist that are being counted already?

Is the short waitlist out too?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Walls offered 20 more seats than last year (190 vs. 170) . . . also I imagine some sort of waitlist management/yield protection tactic. My understanding is they want a call size of about 140-50? So fewer kids may get off waitlist this year . . .

I think that they try to enroll around 160 kids for 9th grade, depending on attrition in the upper grades. They shoot for about 600 kids total.

This year they admitted 190 for 9th grade and put 150 on the wait list. They know that they will go at least 30 deep on the wait list. Last year, they went to 69 on the wait list, after admitting 170.

They will probably go to the 40s or 50s this year on the wait list.

Did 160 kids of the pool of 500 decline interviews or withdraw? Or did Walls just cut the wait list off at 150 this year, knowing that they won't go beyond about half of the list?

Some of those 160 matched elsewhere — presumably at a higher ranked school and never made it to the Walls waitlist.

Huh, looks like Banneker is planning to run a waitlist (first time I’ve ever seen it). Also they admitted a lot of kids. Curious what the yield will end up being…

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Walls offered 20 more seats than last year (190 vs. 170) . . . also I imagine some sort of waitlist management/yield protection tactic. My understanding is they want a call size of about 140-50? So fewer kids may get off waitlist this year . . .

I think that they try to enroll around 160 kids for 9th grade, depending on attrition in the upper grades. They shoot for about 600 kids total.

This year they admitted 190 for 9th grade and put 150 on the wait list. They know that they will go at least 30 deep on the wait list. Last year, they went to 69 on the wait list, after admitting 170.

They will probably go to the 40s or 50s this year on the wait list.

Did 160 kids of the pool of 500 decline interviews or withdraw? Or did Walls just cut the wait list off at 150 this year, knowing that they won't go beyond about half of the list?

Anonymous wrote:Wow. BASIS made 150 seats available. Where are they going to put all those kids?!

BASIS only has 135 seats for 5th grade. They admit 150 knowing that at least 15 will turn down the slot.

Some parents just apply to BASIS in the lottery because they like the "option" (but really plan on going to Deal or wherever) and sit on the seat for weeks, blocking people that really want to go to BASIS. So, this choice partially deals with that problem.

The decision to admit an extra 15 kids in the lottery also makes the waitlist smaller (it says 188 for this year but it is really 203, with 15 being admitted right off the bat). It also makes the ultimate waitlist offers smaller.

BASIS did this 2 years ago. They admitted 150 in the lottery but only filling 135 seats.

BASIS admitted 62 off the waitlist 2 years ago (really 77). They admitted 53 off the wait list last year. That means they will probably only draw 29-35 or so off the wait list this year (really 44-50).

If you are currently in the 40s and above on the BASIS wait list (and maybe even high 30s), you probably won't get in.

Good luck everyone!

Interesting that Walls offered 20 more seats than last year (190 vs. 170) . . . also I imagine some sort of waitlist management/yield protection tactic. My understanding is they want a call size of about 140-50? So fewer kids may get off waitlist this year . . .

Anonymous wrote:Fascinating that Latin didn't even fill its Equitable Access slots, 19 out of 20 and no waitlist for 5th.

And Latin - Cooper only had 14 applications for 22 EA spots.

Fascinating that Latin didn't even fill its Equitable Access slots, 19 out of 20 and no waitlist for 5th.